Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-07-14
Somewhat strange.


He was sick with something like laryn-
gitis, and the veterinary surgeon seeing
that il would soon be impossible for
the animal TO breath through his Eind-
pipe, a portion of the pipe w3s re-
and now the mule breathes freely.
There are still wolves in Missouri,
and one Of them, big, gray fellow, has
been doing some damage in johnson
County. He is too f1eet-foOted for the
horses of the hunters, and has whipped
all the dogs in the neighborhood until
they are cowed. The other day he
treed a small boy on the way from
school, and kept him treed until the
boys father came.
On Roberts Island, California. one
day last week, Farmer Gibson shot a
dove, which dropped dead in the grass
near,his house. As he started to pick
up the bird he saw something move to-
ward the spot where it had fallens and,
thinking 1t coon, he fired at the OBJ
jectr which proved to be his thirteen
year old son, who was hiding. In the
grain. The charge entered the LADS
breast and he died shortly after.
A girl, carrying a fourteen-month
boy, ran into Pittsburg police station
the other day. The child's face was
purple, and 1t was apparently choking
to death. At every expiration Of
breath sound like that Of distant
cornet was emitted from his mouth.
The Police Sergeant gave the young
ster two or three sound whacks on the
back, and out came toy bugle which
had lodged in the infants throat.
1t is said that in portland, Me-, there
is man with false nose, a glass eye,
but three fingers and one thumb, one
ear, false teeth, false hair and cork
leg. For all this he is the liveliest man
in Portland. He walks ten miles every
day, rain or shine. He has had three
wives, and survives them all, and has
refused five chances to get married
again, so he says, since he buried his
last wife, about year ago.
A young Englishmans near Eustis,
Fla. had trap set for a, wildcat, and
on going to 1t found one of the, oldest
freaks of nature ever seenin the State.
The creature, which was held fast by a
fore leg, had a head and fore-quarters
fexactly like those of a pig, while the
rest of the body was perfect alligator.
1t was about two feet long, and grunt-
ed with rage as he approached it. On
Monday he shipped it to the New
York Geological Gardens
Mrs. Strickland, of Elijay, Ga, found
a terrapin last week that was somewhat
of a curiosity. The animal was verita-
BILE highland terrapin, one of those lit
tie creatures that are occasionally
found by the farmer in his broom sedge
orchard. It carried its own register, its
history was on its back. Its crustaceous
covering bore the following inscription:
"June, 1861. w. :" The letter
after w was illegible, and, being near
the edge of the shell its growth is sup
posed to have disfgured its original
mark.
In February last Perry Lampman, an
old widower living in Orange, Iopia
county, Mich, decided his farm offorty
acres to Mrs. Eunice Wright, in con-
forlnity with an agreement that Mrs.
| Wright should mrrry him after he had
so decided the farm. After getting the
deed she concluded she didn't want to
marry himf fwhile she was so reluctant
10 deed back the land that suit has
begun to set aside the deed, and q special
guardian has been appointed for the in
nocent old chap.
Two gentlemen visiting Marshfield,
Wis, had narrow escape during a re-
cent thunderstorm. The current struck
one man on the shoulder, and, passing
down his leg, passed over his foot and
wrist, directly through the sole of his
shoe, making a clean-cut round hole
and entering the floor. A portion o.
the same current visited the othel
man's,body, passing likewise downward
through his slippers into the floor
Through the toe of each slipper can be
/ plainly seen six clear-cut holes, eatt
'Iabout the size of a darning needle,
4 A young man named Hamley, o
Fayette county, Ga, eloped on Friday
with daughter of Farmer Stames
Four brothers of Hamley had previous
lily married four daughters of Stames
although the later objected. When hi
heard OF his last single daughters elope
| ment he was very angry, but recover
ing said: "If they want the whole
family it's all right, pll marry the ole
woman myself.f He accordingly rode
to the house of Mrs. Hamley, whose
husband died recently. proposed, wa!
accepted and the nuptial knot was soor
tied. 1 i